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Submission + - Pedophiles in Second Life?

Submitted by

tmk

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @04:58PM

tmk writes: "German news show Report Mainz discovered child pornography in in Second Life. The report shows both virtual abuse of avatars and exchange of real child pornography in Second Life. German prosecutos started investigations, Robin Harper of Linden Lab promised to cooperate with the police."

Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video 492

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @06:16PM from the better-latte-than-never dept.

Kligmond writes "Last week, Starbucks placed a video on YouTube responding to a video posted by the Oxfam Charity. The Oxfam video was launched in conjunction with 'Starbucks Day of Action,' held December 16th, when activists visited Starbucks locations across the world in protest of the coffee retailer's alleged mistreatment of Ethiopian farmers. The Starbucks video calmly addresses the Oxfam allegations, citing an impasse over Ethiopian trademark legalities. Starbucks claims the refusal to sign a trademark agreement with Ethiopia is a stumbling block they hope to resolve on behalf of the farmers. The coffee chain's representative goes on to refute the contention that Starbucks refuses to pay a fair price for its coffee reserves and, in fact, routinely pays well above commodity price, and above fair trade price. Unlike many recent ineffectual corporate reactions to social journalism and networking eruptions, Starbucks' response is unique in that the corporation managed Oxfam's unconventional assault in a very unconventional way, via YouTube. Regardless of the outcome of this particular incident, the move on Starbucks' part comes off as unmistakably in touch with today's communication modes and methods."

Submission + - GMail Exploit To Steal Contact List Is Fixed

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @06:08PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "If you're visiting the page and it still give your contact's information, you need to log out of all Google services, and then log back in. Doing so will now result in the error. However the exploit will fail to work despite the fact that you haven't logged out. It was fixed at around 8 EST."

Journal Journal: Worst. New Year's Eve. Ever. 4

Journal by DG on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @05:41PM

No, not this one; this would be NYE 1987/1988.

This being my first New Year's after going off to MilCol, so I had been away from home for 5 months, confined in an utterly alien environment. Going from a redneck northern British Columbian logging/mining town to a French Canadian military college is a bit of a culture shock, and I was more than a little weirded out about being back home amongst my old friends during the XMas leave period.

Submission + - Could 2007 be the year of social network fatigue?

Submitted by mrspin on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @05:33PM

mrspin writes: Will users tire of social networks? ZDNet blogger, Steve O'Hear thinks so, if social networks don't open up and embrace standards which allow for greater interoperability between networks: Unless the time required to sign-in, post to, and maintain profiles across each network is reduced, it will be impossible for most users to participate in multiple sites for very long.

$9 Billion Loophole for Synthetic Fuel 328

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 02, 2006 @05:48PM from the that's-a-dirty-pool dept.

Rondrin writes "CNN has an article detailing a $9 billion loophole in the tax code to spur synthetic fuel development. Unfortunately, spraying coal with pine tar qualifies. From the article: 'The wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is going on. Not the members of Congress voting for it and certainly not the taxpayers who will get fleeced by it. And that is exactly the idea.'"

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